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NEW DELHI: Zee News today refuted allegations that it showed forged annexure of a CAG report on coal block allocation. Channel Editor Samir Ahluwalia appeared before Crime Branch this evening and refuted the allegations. Delhi Police had last week registered a case against Zee News for allegedly showing forged annexure of CAG report with regard to coal block allocation , a charge denied as a "figment of imagination, malafide and oppressive". The Crime Branch registered the case alleging that the CAG report annexure shown by Zee News were forged, sources said.

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court today dismissed the the Zee News Ltd's plea for direction to CBI to lodge an FIR against Congress MP Naveen Jindal for allegedly trying to "influence" the hearing before the News Broadcasting Standards Authority in connection with the alleged extortion bid case. Special CBI Judge Dharmesh Sharma rejected the plea saying that the points raised for direction to the CBI to investigate the matter against Jindal, his firm Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL)

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court today reserved for January 16 its order on a plea by Zee News Ltd for direction to the CBI to lodge an FIR against Congress MP Naveen Jindal for allegedly trying to "influence" the hearing before News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) in connection with the alleged extortion bid case. Special CBI Judge Dharmesh Sharma reserved the order after hearing arguments of advocate Vijay Aggarwal , who appeared for Zee News. "Arguments have been heard.

NEW DELHI: Zee News today moved a Delhi court seeking direction to the CBI to lodge an FIR against Congress MP Naveen Jindal for allegedly trying to "influence" the hearing before News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) in connection with the case of alleged extortion bid. In its application before special CBI judge Dharmesh Sharma, Zee News Ltd claimed that during the hearing, NBSA Chairman J S Verma had himself "revealed that Naveen Jindal, Member of Parliament, had telephoned him prior to the hearing to influence/pressurise him for an order favourable to accused number one (Jindal)

NEW DELHI: Zee News editor Sudhir Chaudhary , facing notice from police to join probe after the channel aired the interview of December 16 gangrape victim's male friend, today moved a Delhi court pleading that his statement to the police be video recorded. Without specially mentioning in its order if Chaudhary's statement would be video recorded or not, the court asked the Delhi Police to proceed in accordance with the law. "I have heard the counsel for the accused.

NEW DELHI: An inter-ministerial group of Information and Broadcasting Ministry today heard the conflicting versions of representatives of Naveen Jindal led Jindal group and Zee News on allegations of extortion against the channel's editors. The Jindal group had earlier made representations to the I&B ministry seeking action against the channel alleging blackmail by Zee news editors, who have denied the charge. Sources told PTI that an inter-ministerial group of the ministry led by Additional Secretary J S Mathur had a meeting which stretched to several hours during which they heard detailed representations from both sides.

NEW DELHI: Zee News Editor Sudhir Chaudhary today filed a defamation complaint against Congress MP Naveen Jindal for averments made against him in the FIR of alleged Rs 100 crore extortion bid case and in a press statement here. Chaudhary told the court that in the FIR lodged against him in the alleged extortion bid case, it was "averred" that as the CEO of Live India channel, he had carried out a fake sting operation. Seeking a date for pre-summoning evidence, Chaudhary's counsel Vijay Aggarwal said the averment in the FIR was false as no charge sheet was filed against Chaudhary in that matter.

NEW DELHI: A Delhi Court could not take up on Thursday the plea for monitoring the investigation into the case of the alleged extortion bid against the Zee group and its editors, lodged by a firm of Congress MP Naveen Jindal. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mukesh Kumar could not take up the plea filed by Zee news Editor Sudhir Chaudhary as various parties to the plea were engaged in another court in a related matter. ACMM Kumar deferred the hearing on the plea to January 11 as none of the parties turned up before him. The court had yesterday fixed the matter for today.

NEW DELHI: A local court will on Thursday hear a application moved by Zee News editor Sudhir Chaudhary asking for court monitoring of the police probe against him and asking for directions to be issued to Delhi police to seize the phones and phone records of MP Naveen Jindal and his two relatives. Zee News in a statement said that the counsel of Zee Group head Subhash Chandra had also submitted a representation in the Saket District Court asking the court to issue orders and directions to Delhi Police for obtaining the call records of MP Naveen Jindal and his two relatives, Prithvi Jindal and Sitaram Jindal.

NEW DELHI: The two Zee Group editors were granted bail on Monday by an Additional Sessions Judge after they had spent 20 days in Tihar Jail. Zee News Editor Sudhir Chaudhary and Zee Business Editor Samir Ahluwalia have been directed to surrender their passports, not leave the country without permission of the court and cooperate with the ongoing investigation of the Delhi Police. They have been ordered to be released on furnishing a bail bond and surety of Rs 50,000 each.